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Building Windows Store Non Interactive service application

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I have an application which runs as a service on all flavors of Windows (2003/8 server/Xp/7/Vista). This is Content Distribution App in Receiver Role. So it does not have any GUI or User interactivity.

We have used Windows Visual Studio 2003/2010 for compiling application for x86 using Win32 Windows API. We have also run the App without compiling on Windows 8 Desktop x86. So no issues.

I have downloaded Visual Studio express 2012 for Windows 8 as we intend to run this application on Windows RT (ARM) based Tablets

We understand that we can no longer use Win32 API and need re-work and use Windows RunTime API for C++ but other questions are :

But How is it possible ? What if one has a group of apps interacting with each other. One App is a background App which brings content to the PC or content is pulled from the server and then provides the content to other App which has a GUI. So there should
be a way to port the service app. I agree the GUI app will have to be re-written with Metro-style App.